Soitissue 18 Aug 31St 2011
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HONI SOIT Issue 18 aug 31st 2011 6.30pm Woohoo! VERGE FESTIVAL aka our favourite ever shipping- container-related festival kicks off today. 10 days of uni fun, shipping containers, music, comedy, shipping containers, cupcakes, shipping containers and much much much more. Get involved. 7 - 11pm Local poetry in Surry Hills, WED Check out my mad rhyming skillz, They’re pretty fierce, something to fear You’re looking at the new William Shakespeare ... sorry about that... CARAVAN SLAM, at TONE, 16 Wentworth 31st Avenue, Surry Hills. Freeeee! 8PM Opening tonight for STC, THE THREEPENNY OPERA is a gritty, dark, bawdy and delicious must-see. Brecht’s delightful look at the underworld, you’re going to hear Mack the Knife in all its edgy glory. From $40. 10-12pM Choreographer Ros Warby is hosting a DANCE MASTERCLASS today at the Opera House. Challenging dancers to forget what they think they know, it’ll be a totally free and un-prescribed look at the body and movement. For intermediate+ dancers. $40. 8PM Woo! Even more revues! Bringing up the rear are Commerce with the brilliantly titled ECONOMY OF ERRORS and the Queer Revue’s THE QUEEN. Seymour Centre, tix from $14. • 7-12am Manning, that great hub of student life, that home away from our cockroach-infested student homes, is turning 11! To • celebrate, join us at MANNING’S 11th BIRTHDAY party and groove PICK OF to the tunes of The Holidays, Megastick Fanfare, Guineafowl and THE WEEK Fishing. $5/10 + bf. 6pm I LIKE BEING CONSCIOUS! A fact, and also the title of a really cool stand up show on as part of the Verge Festival! Written and performed by acclaimed USyd comic Cyrus Bezyan, the quirky show will examine consciouness, and if it’s all it’s cracked up to be. FRI $3 Access/$5 General. Cellar Theatre. Sweet! 11.30-3.30 Fascinating talks and events going on everywhere. Today at the Customs House Library catch UNWRAPPED SWEETS: TALES FROM THE SAT CITY, a look at Sydney’s relationship with food over the years. Free knowledge! 7PM Yeah, no biggie, it’s just that John Cleese, Dylan Moran and Louis C.K. 3rd 04 are alll in Sydney as part of the Opera House’s JUST FOR LAUGHS festival. Whatever. 05 ALL DAY It’s father’s Day! (Thank us later, just hurry up with the breakfast in bed!) SUN today + 1 year One year til Father’s Day! Thank us later. 07 8Am Well, the SRC Election campaigns begin today. RUN AWAY FROM EASTERN AVENUE AS FAST AS YOU CAN! MON 08 6pm There is such a thing as KANYE: THE MUSICAL, and it’s on tonight at the Cellar Theatre. Written by Theatresports fave Phil Roser, the show will be absurd and awesome, in that order. The LA Times interviewed Phil, for goodness sake. This thing could be big! $3/6. Strap yourself in. TUE P.S. Ever wanted to be an executive for a society dedicated to all things 10 music related and inspired? Beat the System, one of the youngest and fastest growing societies on campus is holding their AGM on September 7 at 1pm in the Isabel Fidler room in Manning House. Hip hop to it for an opportunity to be involved! 6th THE LOVECHILD: DISCLAIMER RETRACTION Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, O Jack Nicholson “Three ways to kill a duck” was an Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006. The SRC’s Queen Latifah operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of unfortunate editorial mishap. It’s gruesome Sydney. The editors of Honi Soit and the SRC acknowledge the traditional owners of and graphic nouveau-gonzo writing style, this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. Honi Soit is written, printed, and and accompanying lewd “fuck-a-grams” distributed on Aboriginal land. 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THIS WEEK’S TEAM EDITOR BOSS LADY: Neada Bulseco READITORS: Jacqueline Breen, James Colley, Bridie Connell, Shannon Connellan, Andy Fraser, 7 Julian Larnach, Michael Richardson, Laurence Rosier Staines, Tom Walker DAD JOKE OF THE WEEK: REPORTERS: Michael Coutts, Brendan Day, Hannah Bob Bruce, Rebecca Saffir, James O’Doherty, Symonne Who invented textiles? Torpey, Pierce Hartigan, Jim Fishwick, Jon Jobaggy, Katter: Raihana Haidary Some clever so-and-so. mad CONTRIBUTORS: Nick Kraegen, Harriet Gordon Anderson, Tom Cashman, Shami Sivasubramania, hatter! Hugh Satterthwaite, Rafi Alam, CRUCIVERBALIST: Jim Fishwick COVER: Samantha Hawker HONEY SUAVE COMIC: Shannon Connellan I must be an assassin, because I wanna take you out! 8 Bet your HONI SOIT bottom dollar WEEK 6 ISSUE with these 31ST AUGUST 2011 Rugby CONTENTS World Cup tips. LETTERS THE PROFILE 04 From A to Y! Yes, all of the letters. 11 Aussie comic, Greg Fleet, succumbs to rampant fanboyism from TOM WALKER & CAMPUS JAMES COLLEY 10 05 PIERCE HARTIGAN on oh what a night! HUGH SATTERTHWAITE isn’t calling post- FEATURE grads monkeys. No, siree! Ten years on from the Tampa affair, MICHAEL KOZIOL re-examines an event that Verge is ANDY FRASER finally puts that ear horn 12 shook Australia. to good use. here! TOM CLEMENT, JACK GOW, JIM FISHWICK, JULIAN LARNACH & TOM WALKER reviewed revues, the lot of them. VERGE FESTIVAL Verge is HARRIET GORDON-ANDERSON chats to Verge here! NEWS 14 Directors Tom and Harriet. BRIDIE CONNELL chews up the news and OLIVIA SATCHELL does theatre. She does 07 spits it out in little bite sized pieces, like a theatre good. VERGE IS mama bird. ARGHYA GUPTA on Kanye: The Musical. RAIHANA HAIDARY ain’t seeing star JAMES O’DOHERTY is ready to party! HERE! spangled on that banner anymore. NICK KRAEGEN has a chuckle with Matt Okine. JULIAN LARNACH matters, and so does Steve Jobs. THE ARTS BIT 14 SYMMONE TORPEY corresponds from FARRAGO 16 Paris, cock to the sky. TOM CASHMAN tweeted this article in. SHAAMBAVI SIVASUBRAMANIAN is a 08 JACQUELINE BREEN lets the Katter out of bloody mess. Oh, and she saw Titus. Coq au the bag. REBECCA SAFFIR puts the cheap in SAMANTHA HAWKER made a horcrux out chic. vin de of a selfie pic. MICHAEL RICHARDSON boogies to RAFI ALAM is knitting tiny booties. the beats of Bioshock. Paris! CLAIRE NASHAR got the gab going with David Brooks, writer and poet. SRC GRIBBLIES 17 Chinatown this Sunday for Yum Cha-d? SPORT BRENDAN DAY counts down the days to the Rugby World Cup. CRYPTONOMICON DOMINIC BOWES blasted sport with the ol’ 10 shrinking ray. 20 MICHAEL COUTTS & HANNAH BRUCE battle it out on the court - badass. 16 ? If you have any thoughts or comments FROM THE VAULT on anything in this issue of Honi Soit, please 1984 SRC Election write to us at: THE EDITORIAL Picnic Society Candidates honi.soit@ src.usyd.edu.au David Such, Engineering David Crowe, Econ/Law I letters Politics just POLICY STATEMENT POLICY STATEMENT ain’t what it used to be. Gone are the WE ALWAYS days of orators that You may be somewhat Student Parasites! The could mobilise a nation surprised to see the SRC is a bloodsucking THOUGHT IT WAS and debate that divided neighbours. Today, Australian Sydney University Picnic bacteria rotting away HERE WITHOUT YOU. politics is riddled with toe tapping, Society running for office. this university. Don’t be Dear Honi, question-dodging power mongers I know I was. That is, at fooled by those political who remain uninspiring figureheads of I write in reference to the a population left uninspired. The left has first. However, on careful tapeworms telling you article written about the been quietly toeing its way to the right, reconsideration it is the about their new improved highly distinguished and well as the least liberal policies of the right are considered nothing more than empty only real alternative So SRC that’s really going recognized (I would say) rock threats. Desperation has wrought this bridge let’s talk about alterntaives. to do things. The SRC band, Three doors down. In between the two, leaving little distinction. today is too malarial to do regards to the point that it was They both simply swing with the polls. It’s sad Striding purposefully, you the “tenth anniversary since and, frankly, boring. anything new except die. enter the polling booth, anyone had thought about the The only improvement band” was unjust and plain The same cannot be said for politics on campus. your Honi Soit election This microcosmic representation of the broader it can make is to cease to uneducated in regards the national political scope here at Sydney Uni is, issue clutched grimly band’s history. I am a regular for lack of a better word, overwhelming. Hacks, exist. as these politically well-versed kids are known, in your sweaty hands.